Top tip for the week

Click below to find out more about the road outside school closing 27th October for 5 days.

(B4202 Clows Top Road/C2071 Apostles Oak, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2025 Proposed Order: to close that part of Closure 1 – B4202 Clows Top Road from its junction with U64410 Suffolk Ln to its junction with C2230 The Common. Closure 2 – C2071 Apostles Oak from its junction with B4202 Clows Top Rd for a distance of 50 metres in an easterly direction. Reason: Development works by S&R Construction – Abberley Parish Council

Key Stage 2 mixed football

Key Stage 2 mixed football practice will start at lunchtimes next week.  The field is fairly dry at the moment so the children should be able to play in their school uniforms and either trainers or football boots (plastic studs only please).

We have been very impressed with how well the children have settled into life in Abberley.  They have been showing great focus in phonics and have already begun to blend sounds together to read words.   In maths we have been practising our careful counting skills and come up with rules to help us count accurately.  Why not see if your child can share these with you and practise counting at home?

Farmer Bob asked us for some help this week with deciding what plants he should grow on his farm.  The children had lots of excellent advice for him.  We have also been exploring the world through the use of aerial photographs and looking at the differences we could spot between rural and urban areas.  We used this as inspiration to create some brilliant collaborative bird's eye view artwork.

In English this week, we have been using the story Little Goose’s Autumn as our focus for Drawing Club. The children began the week by practicing their sentence formation using the story before moving on to summarising the main events. They also impressed me by applying some of the new vocabulary they have learned accurately and confidently within their own sentences.

In maths, our focus has been on finding one more and one less than a given number and exploring what this means. The children have been using number lines to support their learning, looking at how number lines work and how they are different to number tracks. Out on the playground, they worked in pairs to create their own giant number lines before collaboratively making a class number line back in the classroom.

In DT, the children enjoyed taste-testing a variety of fruits and juices to help them decide on the best ingredients for their smoothie recipes. They are looking forward to next week when they will be applying their chopping skills to make their smoothies using their selected ingredients.

In geography, we explored the question: Why is our world wonderful? The children were fascinated as we looked at some of the world’s amazing human and physical features, including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Statue of Liberty in the USA. Together we used Google Earth to locate which continent these features belong to. We also watched a short David Attenborough clip which showed lots of amazing clips of nature and the children came up with lots of adjectives to describe what they saw.

Timetable

Monday: Wellies and appropriate clothing for outdoor learning

Tuesday & Thursday: PE kits - please can those with longer hair have their hair tied up ready

In English this week, we have been focussing on writing a setting description. We used some of the illustrations from the book, 'The Whale', and the children acted out how they thought the characters would feel in the moment. We then wrote all of these words and phrases down on the board and the children used these for inspiration for their own descriptive paragraph.

In maths, we have continued with our work on place value. The children have been finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less than a given number. We used an interactive tens frame to help 'see' the change in value of a number https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/59/itp-beadsticks. We have also been continuing with partitioning numbers as next week we are going to be comparing and ordering numbers.

In science, we were looking at how to group living things in different ways. We went through the different animal groups - birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals and discussed their characteristics. The children were then given pictures of a variety of animals and came up with different ways to group them.

Please read the news article about our residential to Oakerwood.

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